Theres a man who has been by himself in a prison cell with a dirt floor, crude stone walls, and theres two windows one of which looks out towards the ocean. All of the sudden, he hears a scratching noise, and he looks down at the ground that is furth

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(219) / 评论(0) 分类 傲慢与偏见.Pride.and.Prejudice

Nalini Nadkarni挑战我们对于树木及监狱的传统观点,她认为这两者都比我们所想得更具活力。经由与华盛顿州政府的合作,她将科学课程及保育计划引进给受刑囚犯,并得到超乎预期的效果。

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:罪与罚

19. to keep (one's) nose clean:to keep away from trouble(远离是非,少惹麻烦) The newly released inmates are trying to keep their noses clean. (刚刚获释姆溉俗苁蔷可偃鞘欠恰? A law-abiding person needs to keep his (her) nos

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Return of The Chain Gang Eyewitnesses say it was a scene straight out of a black and white movie from the 1950s. As the sun rose over the fields of Huntsville, Alabama, in the American South, the conv

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Imprisonment for peaceful political activity, religious belief, or for defending a fellow citizen's rights is a horror and a travesty. 因某人参与性质和平的政治活动、持有某种宗教信仰或者捍卫某位公民的权利而对此人进

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(9月)

Obama Calls for Changes to Criminal Justice System 奥巴马呼吁改革美国刑事司法系统 President Barack Obama is calling for major changes to the American criminal justice system. He says problems in the current system are ones that the cou

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(七)月

AS IT IS 2016-01-18 After Prisoner Exchange with Iran, US Imposes Limited Sanctions 互换囚犯后美国对伊朗实施了新的制裁 A day after lifting economic sanctions against Iran for meeting the terms of the nuclear agreement, the U.S. annou

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AS IT IS 2016-04-07 US Sends Two Guantanamo Prisoners to Senegal 美国将两名关塔那摩湾监狱囚犯送至塞内加尔 The United States sent two Libyans from its detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Senegal earlier this week. U.S. Stat

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AS IT IS 2015-12-18 Obama Says He Is Eager to See Cuba Before U.S. President Barack Obama leaves office, he wants to visit Cuba. But only if he can meet with pro-democracy dissidents. Obama told Yahoo News on Monday that part of a deal to visit Cuba

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AS IT IS 2015-01-05 Prisoners Work to Protect the Planet 囚犯致力于保护地球 The United States has the largest prison population in the world. More than 2 million people are jailed. China is second with about 1.7 million. In some U.S. prisons

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You and nine other individuals have been captured by super intelligent alien overlords. 你和其他九个人被高智商的外星人统治者俘虏了。 The aliens think humans look quite tasty, but their civilization forbids eating highly logical

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

今天我们要学的词是trim。 Trim, 动词,有削减的意思。 The local school district plans to trim $2 million from its annual budget, 当地校区计划将年度预算削减两百万美元。监狱开销给美国各州带来沉重的财政

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

今天我们要学的词儿是routine。 Routine是常规的意思。Routine checkup是定期体检。Routine conference是例行会议。我们应该把锻炼变成日常生活的一部分,可以说 We should make exercise a part of our daily rout

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LESSON 19 第19课 wires 电线 trade 贸易 bargain 讨价还价 sadness 悲伤 prisoners 囚犯 war 战争 French 法国 apiece 每人 number 数量 resolved 解决 THE BIRDS SET FREE 小鸟自由了 A man was walking one day through a large city. 有

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GossipGirl第四季第2集柔情插曲I'm in here 关于Chuck究竟怎么了的《绯闻女孩》第四季第2集,让所有BC粉丝揪心的最后火车站桥段,终于让大家看到一丝希望了是不是?而此时响起的非常好听的背景

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Say to yourself 对自己说 I have forgiven those who once hurt me. 我要原谅曾伤害我的人。 We've all been hurt by another person at some point or anotherwe were treated badly, trust was broken, hearts were hurt. And while this pain is nor

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

本期内容: The United Arab Emirates agreed to take in 15 inmates from Guantnamo Bay, reducing the number held at Americas c**troversial offshore prison to 61. Barack Obama wants to close the facility, which has housed almost 800 suspected terror

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

模仿文本: In the last couple of days both sides who are coming to the end of nine months of agreed American brokered peace talks, have taken backward steps, the Palestinians have made that gesture which angers Israelis and the Americans of seek

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The UN Security Council has agreed to start work immediately on drawing up newsanctions against North Korea following its claim to have tested a hydrogenbomb. There is skepticism that Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, the fourth in adecade, was powerf

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

A Different Kind of Audience 与众不同的听众 Al Smith was governor of New York States. He was a famous man. 阿尔.史密斯是纽约的州长。他是个名人。 He was born very poor on the East Side of New York City. 他出生在纽约市东部

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